Category: Biology

Can you imagine to rear honey bee colonies resistant to varroa and other bee diseases, with the capability to increase honey production and overcome harsh winters? “Hot dream” of every beekeeper can soon become a...

Fresh Ideas to Forage As this year’s honeybee foraging season approaches, a fresh bee book launches. On Sunday 1st March 2015, Farming for the Landless: New perspectives on the cultivation of our honeybee, Platin...

Scientists have been linking an increasing range of behaviors and inclinations from monogamy to addiction to animals’, including humans’, underlying biology. To that growing list, they’re adding division of labor — at least in...

Flowering plants need sugar transporter SWEET9 for nectar production Evolution is based on diversity, and sexual reproduction is key to creating a diverse population that secures competitiveness in nature. Plants as largely immobile organisms...

Definitely you will enjoy in this video by Michael Bush. He is explaining what effect has varroa treatment to all ecosystems in a bee hive and what are negative effects of sugar syrup for feeding bees.

Pathogens, pests, and socioeconomics play a key role, but are under researched EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global health issues, announced the results of research conducted on honey...

Honey bees are highly threatened in America today. Due to various diseases and environmental factors bees are dying. As it seems help for pollinators is not in near sight. In addition, another enemy is...

Scientists have identified how a single gene in honey bees separates the queens from the workers A team of scientists from Michigan State University and Wayne State unraveled the gene’s inner workings and published...